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9 months agoSee also: John Oliver’s take from 6 years ago
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Fighter pilot reflexes
Agreed. See also: Benghazi, Hunter Biden, etc.
We have a bad habit of gliding down the slippery slope.
We tried that once. It didn’t go so well.
5·10 months agoThey do. By default the system partition is straight up mounted read-only.
Not that it really matters, but the commercial is for Old El Paso.
Is that… ICQ? Why?
Powell has the power to push exactly one button.
#RED ALARM!!!
6·10 months agoThey banned flavored pods. That’s why disposables took off. Those are banned now too, but enforcement is basically non-existent at the federal level.
Take it up with Tennessee Williams.
America has only three cities: New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans. Everywhere else is Cleveland.
They can legally seize them with a warrant. But that usually only happens if the target might attempt to destroy evidence or otherwise not cooperate.
They can also legally compel the target during execution of said warrant to provide their biometrics (but not their passcode) to unlock the devices.
The sanctions aren’t supposed to cripple China indefinitely. They’re just supposed to give the US enough time to build fabs for military chips before China invades Taiwan.
And yes, I am aware that may not happen within our lifetimes. I did not write the sanctions.
1·1 year agoBitcoin is deflationary. There is a hard limit on the total number of bitcoins that will ever exist. Every so often, the reward for mining a block is halved. Eventually there will be effectively zero reward for mining at all.
That might have been true a decade ago. But GPUs and FPGAs have long been obsolete for mining Bitcoin.
Mining is happening on custom silicon in large-scale operations. They specifically observed several of those large-scale operations in multiple nations and extrapolated out. I don’t see how that methodology is flawed.
in “Russia”